I would like to introduce you lovely OpenSource Lovers to a GIT-Alternative called FOSSIL that I also stumbled upon.<br> It’s basically opensource Github-in-a-box which means it’s an SCM with:

  • Bug-tracker
  • Ticketting-system
  • Forum
  • Wiki-system
  • even a Chat-functionality

& It’s also <u>self-hostable</u> & the best part it’s all in ONE STANDALONE FILE!!! how cool is that

However this tool supports a completely different style of development in FOSS called the “Cathedral-Style” whereas GIT suports a “Bazaar-Style”<br> The person behind Fossil is the creator of SQLite, <u>Dr.Richard Hipp</u> & they even made other projects to support Fossil like a PIC-Like language called PikChr

Well here’s a difference between Git vs Fossil & they even have a hosting service called CHISEL

    • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      82·
      12 hours ago

      Seems like a historic artefact to me as well. And one of their mentioned points was “no sync via http” which even for 2006 makes me… hesitant.

      And their history section ends in 2007, couldn’t find a feature comparison in their quick start guide.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        7·
        8 hours ago

        Isn’t that by design? I believe the intention was to offload that capability to an existing solution, usually ssh.

        • FineWine@lemmy.worldOP
          12·
          6 hours ago

          Yeah & for that we have to deal withe Dependency hell Look at the size of Fossil & compare

          • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            What? Since when has ssh been a negative? Regardless of VC if you work on remote machines you need SSH, fullstop. I won’t take you seriously if you think otherwise sorry.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Not sure what that means. Never once heard of git being a problem or large in size. Further, it’s extremely widely supported.

          • weker01@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            10 minutes ago

            Do you live in a world where storage is expensive or rare? Because I more or less forgot the meaning of deleting files.

            Also git does support the git protocol as a server if you really need it.

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        I must be missing whan you mean by remote/server since pull, fetch, push… All interact with remote copies of the repo.

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
      41·
      10 hours ago

      Git is far from user friendly but that’s a design consideration from a decentralized architecture. Fossil will have the same considerations. People need to learn how to use Git.

      The problem is there’s only one person who really knows how to use it: Linus.

      • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
        41·
        3 hours ago

        I’m so fuckin tired of hearing x is user unfriendly, it’s not intuitive enough.

        Like fuckin yeah. Sometimes you have to actually learn something new to use something new when I first started driving it wasn’t user friendly. I had to learn how to do it

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        4 hours ago

        does he? i was under the impression that linus considers it just as stupid as everybody else and its existence is somewhat unsettlingly like a separate organism that lives in our collective brain activity…